Franziska Duarte dos Santos

E-Mail: franziska.duarte-dos-santos@uni-konstanz.de

Scientific Career

Franziska Isabel Duarte dos Santos is a PhD candidate at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology. She studied at the University of Hamburg, the University of Coimbra, at the University of Konstanz and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in ‚Ethnic Studies/Cultural Anthropology‘ and her Master’s degree in ‚Studies in European Culture‘. In the course of her M.A. thesis, she analysed the ‘(Re)Production of Normality and Deviance in Everyday School’s Practice‘.

In her PhD research, which she started in October 2016, she explores activist initiatives undertaken by (faith-based) organisations that are promoting male involvement in gender-based violence prevention in South Africa. Her ethnographic research is part of the project ‘The Soft Voice of Activism. Christian Lobbying and Reform in the Fields of Sexual Rights and Domestic Violence in Botswana and South Africa’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project is supervised by Prof Thomas Kirsch and co-supervised by Prof Rijk van Dijk.

Main research interests

- Political Anthropology
- Ethnography of Activism
- Gender und Disability Studies
- Science and Technology Studies

Associations

- European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA)
- German Anthropological Association (GAA)

Talks (selected)

July 2020: Divine Intervention, Profession, and Sacrifice: On Becoming and Being an Activist in the Field of Masculinities in Urban, Contemporary South Africa. Conference: EASA 2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe, Universidade de Lisboa (online).

September 2019: ‚We hustle to survive.’ Professional activism in the field of masculinities in urban townships in Gauteng. Conference: GAA-Conference 2019: ‚The End of Negotiations?‘, University of Konstanz.

June 2019:  ‚We are talking about an endangered species. ’ Christian activism on masculinity in contemporary South Africa. Conference: ECAS2019. Africa: ‚Connections and Disruptions’, University of Edinburgh.

Organisation of Workshops and Panels (selected)

Conference Panel: Negotiations as an End in Itself,  30 September 2019, GAA-Conference 2019: ‚The End of Negotiations?‘, University of Konstanz. Together with Prof Rijk van Dijk and Kim Molenaar.

Workshop: Exploring Religious Activism in Southern Africa, 9-10 November 2018, University of Botswana, Gaborone. Together with Prof Rijk van Dijk, Prof Thomas Kirsch and Kim Molenaar.

Workshop: Exploring Religious Activism in Southern Africa, 21-22 September 2017, Pretoria. Together with Prof Rijk van Dijk, Prof Thomas Kirsch und Kim Molenaar.

Teaching

Summer 2016: ‚(Re)Presentations of Europe in Literature and Film’ at Salem Kolleg, Überlingen (together with Rebecca Puchta, M.A.)

Summer 2016: ‚Inclusion: Taking stock of the current debate’, at University of Konstanz (together with Dr Anna Kusser)

Summer 2016: ‚With 4 senses - diversity and change of perspectives’, at University of Konstanz (together with Dr Anna Kusser and Robert Stock, M.A.)